Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious, but forgiving, reference to the President's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill was found in a poem of welcome printed in the Rapid City Journal: We want you to know that we understand What you did you thought...
...could doubt her perseverance in maintaining those heights, or in venturing beyond them. Those who do not understand a popular phrase concerning "indifference" need but read this latest benediction of Harvard upon American education. Harvard is "indifferent", indifferent to mediocrity...
...rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year is pre-eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such as "flexible", "graceful", "minimum of effort", "smooth running" etc., which conveys an impression of something higher and finer than the mere drudgery of pulling an oar through the water...
...talk. Suddenly a youth accosted them. He was a high school student of Vilna . . . Boris Kovenko, he _ said. Would Soviet Minister Vojkov please grant him a passport to enter Russia? He had applied often at the Soviet Legation, but had been refused for no reason that he could understand. Would not the Soviet Minister grant his request...
Half a century or more ago Harvard was under the kind of leadership which could feel and understand the broad sweep of educational history before it was made. So Harvard made history herself. She was in the forefront of the great metamorphosis which freed the American university of the eighteenth century and pushed it ahead into the twentieth within three decades...